PARIS (Reuters) - A wine plague spread by lice destroyed vines in France in the 19th century but a small area in the Pyrenees, which contains plants up to 200 years old, was spared and is being ...

There was a time when Zinfandel was a hard sell. Even though it's California's own red wine grape, consumers avoided buying it because they never knew what they'd find when they popped the cork. It ...

Today each vine might eke out a mere handful of fruit. But what delicious, mind-blowing fruit it is. Tinta de Toro grapes are known for power and heft, and the fruit from these ancient vines gets its ...

Like all of us as we mature, old vineyards have acquired a well-weathered depth of character. Driving past acres of trellised, cordoned vines in any wine country on earth, one glimpses occasionally ...

Seven years ago, Daniel Anastasis, owner of Santa Irene Winery in Farmakas, and his viticulturist/winemaker, Evangelos Bakalexis, discovered that one of the high ...

If you want to start a spirited debate at your next holiday meal, ask your guests which country invented wine. France, Italy, or Greece might come to mind. But most scholars say Georgia - the small ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Napa native Tegan Passalacqua is as unlike the stereotypical owner of a Napa Valley winery as you could imagine ...

A large, old grape vine possibly growing here before the Lost Colony disappeared is on the mend after getting an accidental dose of a powerful herbicide. But as experts continue to nurse the Mother ...